Obituaries

Richard D'ArienzoPark Planner

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Richard "Rick" J. D'Arienzo, 55, a park planner for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, died of a ruptured spleen Aug. 3 at a family reunion in Massena, N.Y. He lived in Bethesda.

Mr. D'Arienzo worked for the commission for more than 30 years, expanding and improving parks throughout Montgomery County. He worked on the Park, Recreation and Open Space master plan and helped acquire or develop Nike Missile Local Park, Milton Kaufmann Park, Manor Oaks Local Park, Ovid Hazen Wells Recreational Park, Laytonia Recreational Park and South Germantown Recreational Park.

He was project manager for the King Dairy Barn Mooseum, a heritage museum and educational center at the James and Macie King barn in the South Germantown Recreational Park that will interpret the county's dairy heritage.

He was born in Massena and graduated from the College of the Adirondacks with an associate's degree. He received a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Syracuse and a master's degree in parks and recreation from the University of Baltimore in 1987.

He moved to the Washington area in 1976. He served on the Silver Spring area recreational advisory board and volunteered at hospitals. He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing and gardening, and was a Washington Nationals fan.

Survivors include his wife of 17 years, Carol Truppi of Bethesda; and his father, Alfonso D'Arienzo, and stepmother, Maidie D'Arienzo, both of Clearwater, Fla.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Muriel Goodman EngelMedical Records Librarian

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Muriel Goodman Engel, 81, a medical records librarian, died of pneumonia Aug. 10 at the National Institutes of Health clinical center in Bethesda. She lived in Silver Spring.

Ms. Engel worked at Doctors Hospital and at Providence Hospital as a medical records secretary. She was a clerk-typist at NIH and secretary in the gastrointestinal clinic at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.

She also held administrative and secretarial positions in the obstetrics-gynecology and urology departments at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for 12 years, until she retired in 1996.